Nose-ring for animals.



No. 735,150. PATENTBD AUG; 4, 1903. E. K. REA.

NOSE RING FOR ANIMALS.

APPLICATION FILED HAB.. 27, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 4, IQO.A

EDMUND K. REA, OF OVID, MISSOURI.

NOSE-RING FOR ANIMALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,150, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed March 27, 1903. Serial No. 149,894. (No model.) Y

To @ZZ whom, it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND K. REA, a citinen of the United States, and a resident of Ovid, county of Ray, and State ot' Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nose-Rings for Animals, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in nose-rings for animals, comprising a pair of hinged sections the free end of one of which is pointed to facilitate the piercing of the cartilage and which is designed to be secured by any suitable means to the free end of the other section in order to fasten the ring in place.

The invention consists of the combination and arrangements of parts hereinafter particularly described and speciically pointed out in the claims, and has particular reference to the provision of a guard or keeper for the nose-piercing section to prevent separation of the sections under excessive strains.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a View of a nose-rin g constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a View of the same in its open position and partially in section. Fig. 3 is a plan or edge view of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view, similar to Fig. 2, of a modification of the invention; and Fig. 5 isa plan or edge View of the same.

The ring consists of the usual seinicircular sections 10 and 11, which are hinged at one end, as at 12, and provided with means for locking the free ends of the sections together, as will be hereinafter explained. The free end of the section 10, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is bifurcated or provided with a slot 13, designed to receive a tongue 14 at the free end of the section 1l, and this tongue may be beveled from its base to the circumference of the ring, as at 15, in order to fit snugly in the inclined or iiaring mouth 16 of the bifurcated end of the other section 10. As thus arranged, the free ends of the sections are made iiush at the circumference of the ring and the continuity of the latter left unbroken. A pin or screw 17, passing through alined apertures 18 when the ring is closed in the tongue and the walls of the bifurcation of the section 10, serves to secure the` two sections against separation.

It frequently happens that the ring is subjected to severe strains when the animal is tied or is being led, and sometimes the parts are sprung in such manner that the point of the nose-piercing section, when located adjacent to the perimeter of the ring, projects beyond the face thereof and lacerates the nose of the animal as the ring turns. To avoid this, I construct the device so that the free end of the section' 10 provides a keeper or guard for the tongue 14, and to this end the bottom of the slot at the free end of the section 10 is inclined or beveled rearwardly from the perimeter of the ring to form the shoulder 19 and the front edge of the tongue 14 is inclined to correspond,or, in other words, it tapers or is inclined rearwardly to the perimeter of the ring. When the ring is closed and secured in the nose of an animal, strains on the free end of the tongue-section 11 are resisted not only by the pin 18, but by the keeper or shoulder 19, which prevents the pointed end of the tongue being bent ont- -wardly beyond the surface of the ring.

A modification of the invention is shown in Fig. 4. Here the front of the tongue is made spear shape, as at 14a, the bottom of the bifurcation 13 being made V shape, as at 19a, to correspond with the pointed end of the section 11. It will be observed here that the free end of the section 11 is locked and'secured in the same manner as the free end of the section 11 in Fig. 2, the upper or outer beveled edge of the tongue resting against the upper beveled portion of the bottom of the bifurcation in the free end of the section 10.

In both of the arrangements illustrated the insertion of. the ring in the nose of an animal is greatly facilitated, for the reason that the rearwardly and outwardly beveled edge of the section 11 readily cuts its way through the cartilage. So as to aid in this operation the beveled portion of the tongue may be brought to a knife-edge, as at 20, in the construction shown in Figs. Zand 3, and when the spear-shaped tongue is employed both the beveled portions are sharpened, as seen in Fig. 4.

I claim as my invention- ICO 1. A nose-ring consisting of two hinged sections the free end of one of which is provided with a bifurcation the outer portion of the bottom whereof is inclined upwardly toward` the adjacent end of the section, the free end of the other section having a tongue entering the bifurcation and the end of which is inclined rearwardly and upwardly, and means for securing the free ends of the sections together.

2. A nose-ring consisting of two hinged sections the free end of one of which is provided with a bifurcation, the free end of the other having a beveled tongue having a knife-edge and entering the bifurcation. Y 3. A nose-ring consisting of two hinged sections the free end of one of which is provided with a bifurcation the bottom whereof is inclined upwardly toward the adjacent end of the section, the free end of the other section having a tongue entering the bifurcation and the front of which is inclined rearwardly and upwardly and brought to a knife-edge, and

a pin passing through thewalls of the bifurcation and the tongue.

4. A nose -ring comprising two sections hinged together, the free end of one section being provided with a piercing-tongue bev- `eled downwardly and the free end of the other section having a recess inclined downwardly from its outer end for receiving such tongue.

5. A nose ring comprising two sections hinged together, the free end of o ne section being provided with a piercing-tongue beveled downwardly and the free end ofthe other section having a recess beveled downwardly from its outer end to receive the piercingtongue and being flaring radially to forrn a shoulder against which the inclined edge of the tongue abuts, and means for secu ring the free ends against separation.

EDMUND K. REA.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR B. SEIBOLD, LOUIS K. GILLsoN. 

